The Glen Matlock documentary is out on Apple & it’s great, both as a (brisk!) rock doc and as redemption for the unsung hero of the band who was always treated like a punk rock Pete Best, but if Pete Best had written She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
And now, a quote from Gary Kemp:
I never bought into Malcolm’s sort of PR that, you know, “Oh, we’ve kicked him out because he likes the Beatles.”I think what Malcolm was really saying is, “We kicked him out because he’s too musical.”
It proved to me then, at that point, that this was not a band that Malcolm had any interest in having longevity, musical development of any kind, or even staying together. He wanted to destroy it, and he destroyed it by putting this crazy guy in on bass who couldn’t even play bass.
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "didn't you rather brilliantly say this exact same thing four years ago?"
Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:
What if Malcolm McLaran had taken a minute from being obsessed with endless media stunts passing off the band as a bunch of untalented puppets of which he was the puppetmaster and instead realized holy crap, this is an incredible band with an amazing album?
The most blatant moment of course is him pushing the rest of the band to fire bass player Glen Matlock....WHO HAD ONLY WRITTEN ALL THE SONGS FOR THEM!
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